arXiv Assistant Production Editor, Cornell Tech (NYC) - Temporary, Part-time

About Cornell

Cornell Tech is Cornell University’s state-of-the-art campus in New York City that develops leaders and technologies for the AI era through foundational and applied research, graduate education, and new ventures. Located on Roosevelt Island, the growing campus was founded in partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and in close collaboration with the NYC Economic Development Corporation after Cornell won a worldwide competition initiated by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration to create an applied sciences campus in New York City. More than 1,000 Cornell students are now educated annually on the campus, including 700 in Cornell Tech programs. Since opening in 2012, nearly 120 new companies have spun out from startup programs at Cornell Tech, and 95 percent of them are based in New York City. Cornell Tech continues to have a transformative economic impact on the region’s tech sector. 

About arXiv

arXiv.org is an international open access research-sharing platform for scholarly articles based at Cornell Tech. The e-print repository receives 25,000+ papers per month in eight major subject areas. arXiv provides an article submission portal, a TeX compilation service, search and discovery tools, web distribution for human readers, API access, machine readable data sets, and community-developed tools. 

Submissions are curated by our strong community of volunteer moderators, subject matter experts in the disciplines covered by arXiv, who balance content quality with distribution speed. Our small Editorial and User Support Team works alongside those 200+ volunteers evaluating manuscripts to ensure papers meet the editorial and scholarly standards of arXiv. 

Our emphasis on openness, collaboration, and scholarship provides the strong foundation on which arXiv thrives. Transparency, open mindedness, collaboration, flexibility, caring, and fairness are key values we bring to our work in service to the community of global researchers. While position responsibilities vary, every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by communicating across differences; being cooperative, collaborative, open, and welcoming; showing respect, compassion, and empathy; engaging and supporting others regardless of background or perspective; speaking up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and supporting work/life integration of oneself and others.  

Position Summary

We are looking for a self-starter with excellent problem solving and organizational skills to join our team. 

Reporting to the arXiv Lead Production Editor, the Assistant Production Editor will manage the manuscript submission, validation, and screening process, in addition to supporting author, reader, and moderator user groups. This is a fast-paced environment with 800-2,000 new papers per day being processed.

This is a temporary, part-time position for 20 hours per week through June 30, 2026. The recommended schedule is 8am–12pm, Monday–Friday. This is negotiable.

Visa sponsorship is not available

Starting salary: $30 per hour

Essential Functions Include

• Interpret arXiv policy for editorial style standards and interact with subject moderators worldwide as part of screening manuscripts for scholarly standards

• Evaluate manuscripts to ensure that submission files and metadata meet copyright, technical, and other validation criteria

• Screen submitted manusc